When is the best time to stop learning? Anyone preoccupied with implementing change strategies may laugh off the question as too obvious to warrant consideration. We are learning constantly just to keep up; for a busy professional, there is no snooze button on learning. Yet there is a peculiar tendency among many, varied organizations, to […]
Now there’s a question. Business transformation has been with us for more than 30 years. It began under the guise of re-engineering in the 1980s and, like nearly every other “new” management tool, has been simply renamed as time has gone along. This can be easily borne out by a looking at Google Scholar. It’s […]
Pareto’s 80/20 Law teaches us how to get the greatest results. In a nutshell, it tells us that we get 80% of our results from 20% of our efforts. The flip side is also true. We expend 80% of our efforts in order to squeeze out the remaining 20%. The key, of course, is to […]
As a seasoned leader, you most likely know how to plan and implement strategic change, organizational transformation or product innovation. But, what if in all that planning, the human factor — how the people conduct themselves around your planned initiatives — just absolutely does not fulfill your expectations? Successful change builds upon altered behavior. Therefore, your […]
Best-selling author, Mark Batterson, has said that “you can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right.” When it comes to making teams effective, it could be that as far as you’re concerned you’re not doing anything wrong; and yet for some reason you’re still not getting the results that you want. It’s possible that […]
All too often, delegating work-related responsibilities is viewed as the unloading of unwanted tasks onto another. But that is not the case; delegation is a matter of trust and confidence in the person, or persons, to whom you are delegating. Being an effective and efficient leader relies on delegating tasks and responsibilities to the other […]
Deep organizational transformation is a combination of changed processes, procedures and behavior. While changing procedures may be relatively easy, transformation processes often stall a missing consequential behavioral change. A different dance “If you want a different dance, change the music.” This African proverb reminds us: If you want to stimulate different actions, find the driving […]
Motivating employees seems to be a constant struggle for many leaders and managers. Try as they might, it seems to be a losing battle. They’ve tried carrots – pay increases, bonuses, stock options, fewer hours, more days off, and just about every other perk they can think of. They’ve tried sticks, too – threats to […]
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